Bradlee Dean, the heavy metal rockstar-turned-bigoted radio-shock jock, has once again done a golf-clap worthy job of competing with Pat Robertson for the D-Bag of the Week award. While Robertson insists gays are wearing special rings to cut and infect strangers with HIV, Dean has gone one step further to claim that half the murders in large cities are at the hands of the LGBT.

Dean, along with his "Sons of Liberty" co-host Jake McMillan, regurgitated the archaic (and disproved) claim on the August 24 broadcast. The made-up statistic has been traced back to anti-gay rhetoric appearing in a 1992 newspaper column.

Hatewatch also uncovered some interesting facts about John Martagh, the judge quoted by Kaifetz in his Post-Tribune column. Martagh apparently led a campaign in the 1950s to increase penalties against “perverts,” but Hatewatch was not able to find any independent record of Martagh's quote other than Kaifetz's recollection. Martagh died in 1976but is survived by his son, also named John Martagh, who is a Republican lawmaker supporting, ironically enough, same-sex marriage.

We're not holding our breath to wait for Dean to clarify his claims on an upcoming broadcast.